Skarner with Ryze
How to Synergize Skarner and Ryze
based on 141 Skarner with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Ryze Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Skarner Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Ryze
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Understand How Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Skarner Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Ryze, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Ryze helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Ryze on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Ryze does a decent job of covering Skarner in team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Ryze
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Skarner that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Ryze is a decent ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 49.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Ryze that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be careful when arranging Ryze teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Skarner players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Skarner and Ryze together, you may not be giving your team much engage potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner to work well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Skarner and Ryze synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Ryze than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 49.6% helping carry Ryze with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Skarner and Ryze pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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